NHL: Chicago Blackhawks take care of business against Minnesota Wild

Marian Hossa scored twice to back a strong effort by goalie Corey Crawford, and the Chicago Blackhawks beat the Minnesota Wild 5-1 on Thursday night to win their first-round playoff series 4-1.

Chicago is moving on in the postseason for the first time since the championship run in 2010 and will face either San Jose or Detroit if the Red Wings eliminate Anaheim.

"We knew we hadn't done it in two years," Hossa said. "Minnesota, they still have a great team and are missing some players. We found a way. Now we get ready for the next round."

The way the Blackhawks have dominated, anything less than a trip to the Stanley Cup finals would be a disappointment. They got off to a record start and captured the Presidents' Trophy (most regular-season points). And after bowing out in the first round the past two years, they are looking good.

Hossa scored off a feed from Jonathan Toews late in the first period. Marcus Kruger made it 2-0 with a wraparound early in the second, and Hossa chased Wild goalie Josh Harding when he knocked in a rebound minutes later.

Then, after Torrey Mitchell scored for Minnesota, Chicago's Andrew Shaw scored against Darcy Kuemper. Patrick Sharp added his fifth goal of the series early in the third period, and that was more than enough for Crawford.

Coming off his second career playoff shutout, he saved 21 shots, and the Blackhawks became the third team to advance in this postseason, along with San Jose and Ottawa.

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The Wild was short-handed in the series after losing Dany Heatley to season-ending shoulder surgery late in the season. They also had to get by without starting goalie Niklas Backstrom after he suffered a leg injury in warm-ups before Game 1.

"I don't want to pin this loss on Josh," Wild coach Mike Yeo said. "Credit them and their team."

Penguins 4, Islanders 0: Tomas Vokoun stopped 31 shots in his first playoff start in six years, and host Pittsburgh beat New York to take a 3-2 series lead.

Sidney Crosby, Tyler Kennedy and Douglas Murray scored during a seven-minute stretch in the second period and Kris Letang added a power-play goal in the third for Pittsburgh

Evgeni Nabokov made 23 saves for New York but gave up breakaway goals to Crosby and Kennedy and botched a lazy wrist shot from Murray.

Penguins coach Dan Bylsma benched goalie Marc-Andre Fleury, who had started 79 straight postseason games but struggled in Game 4.

"I was a little bit nervous the whole day; you wouldn't be human if you weren't," Vokoun said.

The Senators took the series 4-1 in moving on for the first time since 2007.

Zack Smith, Kyle Turris, Daniel Alfredsson and Erik Condra also scored for Ottawa, a seventh seed in the East but bolstered down the stretch by the return of top players on defense Erik Karlsson and Jared Cowan.

P.K. Subban scored for Montreal, which failed to solve Anderson. The Canadiens scored only nine goals in the series, while their own spotty goaltending allowed 20.

Maple Leafs: Defenseman Mark Fraser had surgery to repair a broken bone after being hit in the face with a slap shot during Boston's 4-3 win Wednesday. Coach Randy Carlyle said Fraser was resting at home. The Bruins can advance with a win in Game 5 on Friday in Boston.

Predators: Goalie Pekka Rinne had arthroscopic surgery on his left hip and will need about four months to recover. .

Sabres: Buffalo fired assistants James Patrick and Kevyn Adams. The changes came two days after Ron Rolston took over the head coaching job on a permanent basis. He was named interim coach when Lindy Ruff was fired in February.